Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Volví a Madrid el domingo pasado; estuve en Roma. Hoy tenemos clase con Juan Carlos Alfonso from Sogecable http://www.sogecable.com/ If you don´t know anything about the Spanish entertainment industry, Sogecable will ring a bell if you´ve seen enough Spanish films through the years. They always are involved somehow, with distribution.

But hey, a quick blog. I visited with Imma Subirats http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ last week from 2 to 7 May, and she invited me to give a talk at her workplace, the FAO of the UN.That was 3 May. See ppt http://www.jenniferdebeer.net/research.htmlThe talk was an update of the one given at Berlin4, and included some feedback on Berlin4 itself, as well as an orientation to Open Access generally. I had a good interested audience, though not a big one. I met everyone else in the Library and Documentation Systems Division, incl. Johannes Keizer, and Anton Mangstl. And then Enrica Porcari, CIO for the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research http://www.cgiar.org/ ). Some interesting things happening in that sector of the science world...